[QUOTE=Ntag;47283887]Yeah I've been playing for a while. Go through phases where I practice tons but usually don't have much of an opportunity to -- do you have similar issues with motivation/opportunities to practice? I hope to play more next year when I get a proper flat outside student accommodation. Can't tackle anything too complex at the moment other than pieces at the level of Chopin's op9 no1 nocturne or Debussy's suite bergamasque.
Excellent piece. I'll have to have a look at more of Bartók's stuff in future.[/QUOTE]
Thankfully my college chapel has a pretty nice piano and it's open all the time so I can play pretty much whenever the chapel isn't being used. I do get periods where my work just overwhelms me and I can't find the time to play, though. I'm working on Chopin's 4th ballade now, the coda is killing me. Double notes really aren't my forte...
[video=youtube;jjjfbmjJlQ0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjjfbmjJlQ0[/video]
this is the greatest piece of music ever as far as am concerned
[QUOTE=Kentz;47287001]this is the greatest piece of music ever as far as am concerned[/QUOTE]
I really enjoy the 2nd movement, especially the part about 6:40. It's one of those pieces I've not actually heard in ages but used to listen to it too much.
Got to see Ravel's concerto in G a few weeks back -- as well as Fauré's Pelléas et Mélisande. Was astounding to see live.
Here's the [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Zf7DCM7BM&t=3m38s]second movement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Piano Concerto[/url].
It reminds me of the [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sentB_7U7yY&t=17m45s]presto[/url] from Saint-Saens' 2nd piano concerto.
i enjoy it all
Julius Reubke made a similar sonata which i love almost equally
[video=youtube;qNMWu2_T94g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNMWu2_T94g[/video]
its basically a rip-off Liszt, at least in style and astmosphere - but i do love THAT style
[QUOTE=Kentz;47290456]i enjoy it all
Julius Reubke made a similar sonata which i love almost equally
its basically a rip-off Liszt, at least in style and astmosphere - but i do love THAT style[/QUOTE]
Any other similar pieces you might suggest? Similar composers?
Those are the only ones that i directly know - liszt did have many students that ive heard many similar pieces were made. In my personal opinion, a lot of scriabin is similar in tone
[QUOTE=Ntag;47266505]
[video=youtube;g9lo9ZDYuDU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9lo9ZDYuDU&t=33m23s[/video]
Skip to 33m 23s for some epicness.
[/quote]
oh man gotta love shostakovich bombast
this is my fav
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvx-TfHoauE[/media]
[QUOTE=Kentz;47293494]Those are the only ones that i directly know - liszt did have many students that ive heard many similar pieces were made. In my personal opinion, a lot of scriabin is similar in tone[/QUOTE] Yeah I enjoy some early Scriabin. His later stuffs a bit weird but I do like Prometheus for example.
[video=youtube;hVwwym0SlZY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVwwym0SlZY[/video]
Got to perform this one with the soloist in this video last summer. He's a giant; makes the tuba look like a baritone to him seeing as he's 6'7". Best tuba player I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.
Love the Lutoslawski. Shame so many of his works were lost. It's always sad to ponder the amount of muscal works lost to time or destroyed -- as well as how many composers died far too young. Imagine how much more music there could be from Mozart, Chopin, Schubert or Mendelssohn. Hell, even Ravel, Gershwin, Mahler, Tchaikovsky and Debussy deserved a decade more of composing.
After Ravel's car accident, he never fully recovered. He lost the ability to compose in his later years, and while attending a performance of Daphnis and Chloe he started to cry and said:
"I still have so much music in my head. I have said nothing. I have so much more to say."
He died soon after. :(
Alkan was one crazy motherfucker:
[video=youtube;H509PDE6RCI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H509PDE6RCI[/video]
[video=youtube;MNleymt9gyI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNleymt9gyI[/video]
Let's get some bass literature in here [video=youtube;QgZ_-f7pVk4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgZ_-f7pVk4[/video]
Diggin' the scherzo by Alkan.
Speaking of Alkan:
[video=youtube;fA0XVVNJoFM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA0XVVNJoFM[/video]
I really like the middle section. His op 39 etudes 8-10 for orchestra are also really cool.
Some more vicious compositions:
[video=youtube;45mXvaIW02c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mXvaIW02c[/video]
[video=youtube;vay6QYr1kT8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vay6QYr1kT8[/video]
It's cool how much of a spectrum classical music covers emotionally and thematically.
[editline]11th March 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=RoastedSagets;47298515]Let's get some bass literature in here[/QUOTE]
That looks exhausting to play. It's like he has to exaggerate all his finger movements due to the thickness of the strings. Great piece.
Some brass band pieces:
Played this almost a year ago:
[video=youtube;z5z7DcsvExc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5z7DcsvExc[/video]
Played this a few months ago:
[video=youtube;hSGWAAu2j14]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSGWAAu2j14[/video]
Playing this over the weekend in a competition:
[video=youtube;HVNN5gcn6WA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVNN5gcn6WA[/video]
(Probably the hardest of the bunch, but they're all fairly difficult)
[QUOTE=The mouse;47282732]Also I wish that Béla Bartók composed more pieces such as his Dance Suite, it's a great piece of music[/QUOTE]
I'm so obsessed with the 3rd movement. Any other suggestions? I've given Bluebeard a listen as well as his piano concertos. Already familiar with the Bulgarian rhythm pieces.
I've been listening to Wagner's Ring cycle. On The Valkyrie right now.
Bumping this thread with my favourite interpretation of one of my favourite pieces of music of all time:
[video=youtube;KI38MuQ4YdQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI38MuQ4YdQ[/video]
Discovered a few new composers like Badalbeyli, Ornstein and Stanchinsky.
[video=youtube;yy9ZnOxuHEE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy9ZnOxuHEE[/video]
[video=youtube;Z-XzRU_32Ec]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-XzRU_32Ec[/video]
This gets more tuneful after like 50 seconds so don't get put off by the beginning. Ornstein was crazy ahead of his time. Listen to his Wild Men's Dance.
[video=youtube;b5fvk5wR-xM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5fvk5wR-xM[/video]
[video=youtube;nBnzxcwlNsE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBnzxcwlNsE[/video]
Love at first sight with this piece (same with Badalbeyi's the sea).
[QUOTE=Ntag;47568933]Discovered a few new composers like Badalbeyli, Ornstein and Stanchinsky.
*Badalbeyli*
*Ornstein*
*Stanchinsky*
*Stanford*[/quote]
I love the first piece. That fucking 21/16 time signature in the Stanchinsky though.
[video=youtube;UKffXbbG7Tc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKffXbbG7Tc&t=4m23s[/video]
Discovered Ropartz a few days ago. Was listening to a chamber music CD with Ravel, Debussy, Roussel and Ropartz.
Absolutely charming. Skip to the second movement at 4m23s for my favourite part.
For fans of Debussy's Claire de Lune: Here's Delius' 3 Preludes for Piano. I just found it and instantly fell in love. Sublime.
[video=youtube;0z0DtLlEqKk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z0DtLlEqKk[/video]
Also listened through Scriabin's sonata cycle. I can see why many say its the most important cycle since Beethoven's sonata. You can see his progression from lush Chopin-esque romanticism to a modernist style which can only be described as mystic and wholly unique. This sonata is right at the transition period where he develops more complex tonality in his works. Give it a good listen it becomes very beautiful and tuneful after like 2 minutes. Richter says it'ss the hardest piece of music to play. Evidently since technicalities present no problems for him its really saying something about the musical nature of the piece.
[video=youtube;xDTgj_69JKA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDTgj_69JKA[/video]
If you like this you can go forwards or back depending on whether you prefer more romantic or more complex textures. Nikolai Roslavets (and kinda Feinberg) continue on from his sonatas, stretching tonality and rhythm to their ultimate extremes. It's interesting too because it's everything but atonal. It's so utterly complex how he crafted this that if you take the time to study it you can really get a lot from it.
Anyways thats enough from me I'll post here in another few months when it's dead again.
Been on a Frank Bridge binge. Check out his piano works, they're amazing! Here's some of his orchestral stuff:
If you're a fan of Debussy's La Mer, here's Bridge's The Sea.
[video=youtube;Lr2vfLu3WiQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr2vfLu3WiQ[/video]
That's only the first movement so if you like give the rest a listen.
Also fell in love with Stanchinsky. There's very little of his work out there because he died so young but what he did compose shows so much promise and amazing intention. I think that he could have been one of the big modern names had he not died at the age of 26.
[t]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/202/MI0003202010.jpg[/t]
This guy is a champ.
[t]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/818P5SnLKQL._SL1500_.jpg[/t]
Letterberg does an incredible job with the sonatas. Up there with Richter and Horowitz.
thread bump time, i found a rather excellent recording of holst's planets suite
[url]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1pm-oq_XEZyT-CXy4GSb_SX7nhCXyS3S[/url]
i had this tune stuck in my head forever but couldn't remember the title, and i finally found it again last night by coincidence.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I[/media]
also, we're doing this in my community band
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zirn3M3ewQc[/media]
it's a nice song but i'm not a fan of playing it
[QUOTE=Pops;49064748]
also, we're doing this in my community band
it's a nice song but i'm not a fan of playing it[/QUOTE]
Never heard of him before. Quite pleasant, though I can see how it woud be tedious to play.
Going to be playing this piece in a few weeks time in the big national competition here. May sound boring and trite at first but give it a listen from 3:00 onwards, especially around 5:00. Really fantastic chords and harmonies in the middle, slower section. Not to mention it's quite tricky to perform.
[video=youtube;6sujOtsvrVk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sujOtsvrVk[/video]
i don't know that i would say it's tedious playing it, just really don't care to play it all that much.
also, that brass song is hella neat, reminds me of this
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIuU4dLSn8[/media]
i need more songs like this and yours
[QUOTE=Pops;49066438]also, that brass song is hella neat, reminds me of this
i need more songs like this and yours[/QUOTE]
What a piece! Need to listen to the rest of that album now.
If you need other pieces like the one posted, try:
[video=youtube;InN8MTV2t1Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InN8MTV2t1Y[/video]
The first movement of this steals from Bruckner 8 but it's seriously epic! Another work by him Torchbearer was used for the championship section. Seriously impressive piece which is stunningly difficult to play.
[video=youtube;HVNN5gcn6WA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVNN5gcn6WA[/video]
Very fun and exciting piece. Quite challenging cadenzas.
[video=youtube;z5z7DcsvExc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5z7DcsvExc[/video]
Astounding piece; listen to the middle movement (4:03) for one of the most beautiful melodies I've heard. The last movement (9:13) is so much fun to play as well. Lots of counting at the end. He's a great composer (try his gadabout for piano which is really great as well). He's also known as one of the best choral composers out there.
Lastly, a bit more out there (moreso than George Lloyd's Diversions which I posted last page), Thomas Doss' Spiriti.
[video=youtube;6-PdJU7MlzY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-PdJU7MlzY[/video]
Has insane 13/16,15/16,7/16 (you name it) time signatures and very difficult parts to play. Very atmospheric. Insane sop solo at around 9 mins.
[video=youtube;2dm80sFRoLk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dm80sFRoLk[/video]
[video=youtube;UIP1YoPAeyM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIP1YoPAeyM[/video]
[video=youtube;jFgYfOOECFM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFgYfOOECFM[/video]
On a Scriabin binge. Love the sense of beauty with a certain intensity to it he gets.
[video=youtube;d3fhzZSGFlU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3fhzZSGFlU[/video]
hm, so i had no idea there were 16 slavonic dances, i was only aware of 8 of them
anyways, in my community band we're going to be playing this arrangement. the music looks like quite a clusterfuck at parts so i'll be amazed if we can pull it off, but then again we've just finally made it through rhapsody in blue from start to finish altogether.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-KUsi0kCHc[/media]
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